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After the document type declaration, the remainder of an HTML document is contained by the HTML element.
Thus, a typical HTML document has this structure:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
...The head, body, etc. goes here...
</html>